Vehicle-wheel rim



R. W. ASHLEY.

VEHICLE WHEEL "RIM.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 2, I916.

Patented June 3, 1919,

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ROBERT "JV. ASHLEY, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.,

v Assxenon or ONE-HALF TO FRANK vonnnirmcn, or sun. MARYS, rnuusrnvaum.

VEHICLE-WHEEL RIM.

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Specificationof Letters Patent.

a lication filed May 2, 1916. Serial No. 94,935.

To all whom it may concern.

Be it known that It, Bonner W. ASHLEY, citizen of the United titates, residing at New York city; in the county of New York and State of New York, have invented new and useful improvements in Vehicle JWheel Rims, of which the following is a specification. 1 r I The invention relates to vehicle wheel. rims and has particular reference to demountable rims foruse in connection with pneumatic tires for motor cars.

: surface a' plurality of The object of the invention is the providing of a felly band having associated therewith reception locking means, and a tirecarrying rim having mounted on its inner Wedge cleats, and a plurality of clamping plates engaging said 1 reception locking me'ans and said cleats, and j means engaging said locking means and said 7 plates adapted to contract said tire-carrying rim to seat said cleats on the periphery of said'felly band on its front edge thereof and exert a contractive pressure on said rim to seat same on said folly band at its rear edge thereof. v p y Another object-of the invention is the providing of means for looking a tire-carrying rim of either an integral top rim type or one split transversely thereof at a common point in its annular body and locked at that point, or any desirable type of tire-carrying demountable rim.

In the following is described in connection with the accompanying drawings one embodiment of the invention, the features thereof being more particularly pointed out hereinafter in the claims.

' locking means.

In the drawings Figure 1 is a cross sectional View of the rim assembly; Fig. 2 is a detailed View of the tire-carrying rim illustrating the position thereon of the Wedge cleats; Fig. 3 is an enlarged detail cross sectional view of the rim locking means; and 4 is a detailed face elevation of said rim Similar numerals of reference indicate similar .parts throughout the several views. in the drawings (1) designates a felly, aving mounted thereon a felly band (2) provided with aseating shoulder (3) at its Y rear edge and a depending flange (4) at its front edge. At regular intervals around the i of rivets lower edge of dependingfiange (4) a plurality of bosses (5) are punched in said flange and immediately above said bosses a recep- -tion threaded aperture (6) is provided.

(7) indicates a tire-carrying rim provided with tire flanges (8) and has mounted on its inner surface thereof at regular intervals in i(ts circumferenee a plurality of wedge cleats q (10). Said cleats (9) may be Welded to rim (7) or the(y may be riveted thereto by means (12) indicates a locking plate provided at its upper end with an inwardly projecting shoulder (13), having formed on its edge thereof a tapered wedge surface (14) adapted to engage the reception Wedge surface (10) on cleat (9), the lower edge of said plate (12) being bent inwardly as at (15) to form a cam surface for engagement with the inclined surfaces on bosses (5). An ordinary threaded bolt (16) provided with a standard hexagon head (17) engaging the threaded aperture (6) in flange (4) is pro-' vided and the head thereof is adapted to engage the outer surface of plate (12) and when actuateddraw said plate (14) to engage and the cam surface (15) to ride downwardly on the said inclined surof bosses (5) and thereby exert upon .the tire-carrying rim a lateral and contractive seating action. By utilizing a plurality of the locking means as above described and by distributing them. equally around the any band of a wheel, a locking means having a positive. action is provided wherein each locking element exerts a contractivc pressure between the folly band and the tire carrying rim seating said tire-carrying rim on all of the wedge cleats around the periphcry of said felly band at the front edge of .the rim, thereby-providing locking means (12) l'aterally to cause the beveled surfaces (10) and provided with tapered reception edges shown and described may be WHY 10d in many Ways Without departing from the general spirit of the invention.

What I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United Stat es is l. A device of the charamer described comprising a folly band, contrac'tive locking means associated with said telly band, a plu- "ality of reception simportingr means associated therewith, a demountatle riin adapted to engage said folly band at the rear edge thereof, a plurality of l'QCQ'QtlOH locking cleats mounted on said denioui: table rim and arranged to engage said telly band at its opposite edge, a plurality of s-ipporting retaining locking means mounted on said supportin fmcans and engaging said contractive locking means and said locking cleats, and means operative on said supporting means and engaging said retaining locking means i dapted to exert a contractive and in wardly radial seating action on said deniountable rim annularly at one edge thereof and at a plurality of points of contact at the opposite edge thereof.

A device of the character described con'iprising a telly band, contractive locking bosses formed on said felly band, a plurality of reception supporting means associated with said folly band and said contractire locking bosses, a demountable rnn adapted to engage said telly band, a series of receptionlocking' cleats mounted on the inner demountable rim adjacent arranged ior contact surface of said the front edge thereof with said felly band, a plurality of removable retaining locking plates mounted on said supporting means and arranged to engage said contractive locking bosses and said series of locking cleats, and means associatec with said plates engaging said supporting means adapted to actuate said plates to seat said demountable rim on rality of reception studs associated with said band, a demountable rim adapted to engage said telly band, a plurality of cleats provided on said rim adjacent its front edge thereof, a plurality of locking plates arranged for engagement simultaneously with said bosses and said cleats, and a plurality of locking means engaging said studs and plates adapted to seat said demountable rim onthe rear edge of said felly band and said cleats on the transverse surface of said telly band adjacent the front edge thereof.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto signed my name in the presence of two subscribing Witnesses.

RGBERT VJ.

i In the presence of- E. E. Harries, ltlaneann Prinrrnn.

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